Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer TheoryColumbia University Press, 5. nóv. 2009 - 304 síður Michel Foucault was the first to embed the roots of human sexuality in discipline and biopolitics, therefore revolutionizing our conception of sex and its relationship to society, economics, and culture. Yet over the past two decades, scholars have limited themselves to the study of Foucault's History of Sexuality, volume 1 paying lesser attention to his equally explosive History of Madness. In this earlier volume, Foucault recasts Western rationalism as a project that both produces and represses sexual deviants, calling out the complicity of modern science and the exclusionary nature of family morality. By reclaiming these deft moves, Lynne Huffer teases out exciting new strands of Foucauldian thought. She then revisits the theorist's ethical work in light of these discoveries, divining an ethics of eros that sees sexuality as a lived experience we are repeatedly called on to remember. Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason. |
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Síða x
... opening in history. Paradoxically, it is precisely in its lightness—in its refusal to be weighed down by a tradition of explications de texte, which would confer on it some official status—that the book as discourse and as objectevent ...
... opening in history. Paradoxically, it is precisely in its lightness—in its refusal to be weighed down by a tradition of explications de texte, which would confer on it some official status—that the book as discourse and as objectevent ...
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... opening toward alternative ethical perspectives for living in the present. Looking through the lens of Foucault's final work on an ethics of experience, we can thus return to ethics in Madness through the back door, as it were, by ...
... opening toward alternative ethical perspectives for living in the present. Looking through the lens of Foucault's final work on an ethics of experience, we can thus return to ethics in Madness through the back door, as it were, by ...
Síða 3
... opening connection between a belief in our insides and the problem of splitting. This introduction gestures toward the splits that fracture the surface of this fairly contained reinterpretation of Foucault's first major book. In that ...
... opening connection between a belief in our insides and the problem of splitting. This introduction gestures toward the splits that fracture the surface of this fairly contained reinterpretation of Foucault's first major book. In that ...
Síða 14
... opening, a transformation—not only in Foucault's life, but in his thinking: a shift he compares to his reading of Nietzsche during the same period in the mid1950s. Foucault told his friend, Paul Veyne, that it was Barraqué who taught ...
... opening, a transformation—not only in Foucault's life, but in his thinking: a shift he compares to his reading of Nietzsche during the same period in the mid1950s. Foucault told his friend, Paul Veyne, that it was Barraqué who taught ...
Síða 17
... opening is forged in a language other than that of science. In my reading, then, the Foucault archive symbolizes that part of “Foucault” which “Foucault” himself rejected as the biographical Exterior of his own published writing. For ...
... opening is forged in a language other than that of science. In my reading, then, the Foucault archive symbolizes that part of “Foucault” which “Foucault” himself rejected as the biographical Exterior of his own published writing. For ...
Efni
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1 How We Became Queer | 44 |
2 Queer Moralities | 87 |
3 Unraveling the Queer Psyche | 127 |
4 A Queer Nephew | 194 |
5 A Political Ethic of Eros | 242 |
Notes | 281 |
Works Cited | 313 |
Index | 325 |
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